Pleasant Grove Review | 1947-11-07 | Page 5 | Reduce Fruit Fly Annoyance by Cleanliness

Reduce Fmsi Fly Annoyance By CleanSfness Wash out garbage cans before returning them to basement rooms, to reduce fruit fly annoyance in homes, suggested Dr. G. F. Knowl-ton, Knowl-ton, Utah State Extension entomologist. entom-ologist. Garbage cans often become infested in-fested with fruit flies, while garbage gar-bage cans are uncovered out of doors, before they are covered and returned to their usual place. If such cans are kept in the house, fast breeding fruit flies may soon prove annoying. Spraying garbage cans with D DT, particularly when they are left out of doors, also helps to control con-trol fruit flies as well as house-flies house-flies and mosquitoes, Dr. Knowl-ton Knowl-ton opinted out.